Copenhagen airport closed for four hours after large drones seen in vicinity, while Oslo airport closed for three hours following two sightings Copenhagen police and Danish security and intelligence service, or PET, are now giving a press conference, reported by Danish media, with authorities warning that the reported incident amounted to “a very serious situation.” Flemming Drejer, PET’s operational director, acknowledges that, given the international context, Denmark faces a hightened level of threat of sabotage. All possible options and links are being looked at, he says. Continue reading...

A United Nations Commission of Inquiry concluded that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had incited these acts - accusations that Israel called scandalous.

Almost 90% of leading academics on subject back resolution stating that Israel’s actions meet legal definition An overwhelming majority of members of the world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has backed a resolution stating that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of the crime. Eighty-six percent of those who voted in the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) supported the motion. The resolution states that “Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948).” Continue reading...